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Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Without a doubt the worst sequel I have ever seen by a wide margin!
This movie was a shameless attempt to cash in on the popularity of the first movie, with absolutely no attempt to write a movie worth watching. It was almost like the producers were trying to test how gullible the public is in paying money to see a sequel which was totally opposite in quality to the original movie. I really like Smokey and the Bandit. It had everything a quality movie could have. Burt Reynolds was charismatic, confident, and secure. In this sequel, he was gutless, confused and spineless. And the Sally Field character was a moralizing, preachy, annoying beau with her eyes set on correcting Bandit in the sequel. Kinda reminds me of most marriages! What we all loved about the original movie, fast driving, southern charm, Sheriff Justice's tough guy charisma, a real sense of urgency, are totally missing from this movie. The writers wrote a real piece of garbage in this one. The Bandit was reduced to a complete loser, who only succeeds because of his friends, not because of his abilities in like in the first movie. Worthless movie, totally.
Walk the Line (2005)
"Great Balls of Fire" was better!
When movies today are as bad as they are today, you get people going crazy over mediocre movies like this one! Jouquin Phoenix looks nothing like Cash, he can't sing, and Reese Witherspoon looks like a yuppie from Los Angeles more than she looks like June Carter. I can't believe this movie has received so much adulation. Was I watching a different movie? I thought that Johnny Cash and June Carter were southerners who had hard lives? The actors playing them seemed to have an air of wealth to them. This movie just didn't seem realistic in any sense whatsoever. I thought June Carter in real life was a hard woman. Reese Witherspoon seemed like a graduate student more than a low-class southerner! Anyway, don't feel like you have to follow the crowd and like things just because other people do. I thought this biographical epic was as boring as "The Greatest Story Ever Told", and it seemed like even a longer movie!!! I thought the movie about Jerry Lee Lewis was much better, and it didn't receive any Oscar consideration whatsoever. I dare anybody to watch "Great Balls of Fire" and compare it to "Walk the Line", and tell me that "Walk the Line" is better!